The Elves Little Oracle Cards

During the week of midsummer when the nights in Iceland are bright as day, I published my new oracle cards. I call them "The Elves Little Oracle Cards".
The elves and other hidden beings in Nature have been a part of us Icelanders from the beginning. Almost every cliff, waterfall, mountain and knoll has beings living inside. Water sprites, dwarfes, the friendly elves and the "next door neighbors" the hidden people. They are all part of our history.

My husband Lárus is helping me making a new website www.ragjo.is for all my projects. In there you will find more about the cards and the Friendship Tapestry. The Stitching Elf embroidery patterns is in working progress. We will be adding new things to all the pages on the website in the next few days and weeks.

Enjoy the bright days and night in the north and the cool winter days in the south. :-)
Love and friendship
Ragga / Rags

The summertime and The Friendship Tapestry

It is summer time here in the north and everything looks green and beautiful. The fragrance from the Mountain Ash (Rowan Tree) and the birch trees fills the air after a midnight rain. My dog Dúfa and my cats play happily outside, while the birds sit high in the trees and sing for us. It is a good time to enjoy.

My husband and I are working on a new Friendship Tapestry website. I can´t get into the old one to add the new pieces I have received.
We are preparing for another exhibition of the Friendship Tapestry but it won´t be in Australia as we had planned before. Time changes, doesn´t it. I will keep you posted here on this blog when plans are clear, it will be soon.

Enjoy the summer, it is a wonderful time to sit outside and stitch :-)
In friendship
Rags / Ragga

Summer green

Spring is my favorite time of year! and of course summer is great with it´s long bright days and very short nights here in the north :-) Everything turns green, the beautiful healing feeling comes with that green colour.

Everywhere is a sign of new life. Rose bushes promising flowers in many colours right on top of that green.

The plants with it´s endless variety of texture and colour give inspiration to new stitching and knitting ideas every day. So, I´m going outside to stitch in my little garden and listen to the birds sing and my cats and doggy play around me.
Enjoy Life, it IS good :-)

Happy Easter!

Dear Friendship Tapestry friends. I have received two new pieces of friendship for the tapestry. I am hoping I will soon be able to work the website properly, so I can add the pictures of these wonderful pieces. One has actually been waiting to be published for quite awhile. But I hope I am forgiven.
Lovely Easter Holiday is here with hopes of Nature coming alive again after a long sleep of winter. Everything comes to life again at this time of year, here in the north at least ;-) It is of course vice verse in the southern hemisphere ;)

Last weekend we had the snow in the picture below, today it is raining and actually almost warm. A very nice day. Some of the rose bushes are showing life and my sherry tree is bursting! Such promises of brighter and warmer days ahead :)

I added a photo of my new bird pattern on the "Stitching Elf" blog, you find a link here to the right.

Happy Easter!

April in Iceland

It has been quite awhile since last time I blogged. Time just passes too quickly ;-)

For my Friendship Tapestry friends, I have some rather sad news. We will not be able to attend the "Beating Around The Bush" convention in Adelaide, Australia, next October, as was planned. Instead we are preparing an exhibition of the Friendship Tapestry in Reykjavík Iceland during the same time. I will keep you informed.

The photo above was taken last weekend, march 29th but now there is no snow on the ground here in the SW Iceland and a hint of spring fragrance in the air. I think.... hopefully, we will have spring time soon :-)
All the best to you dear friends out there
Ragga /Rags

A nice visit from Australia :-)

I had a wonderful visit last week from Australia. A new friend, Robyn Young spent an afternoon with me and of course I showed her the Friendship Tapestry.

It was really a good afternoon and I want to thank you Robyn for taken the time to stop by :-)
It is so wonderful to meet new people from different parts of the world.

A New Year with New Ideas :-)

It´s a new year with new ideas and new adventures. These days I am starting my own little business I call Stitching Elf. I paint pictures from Icelandic nature and turn them into cross stitch patterns and kits. I will write more about this later and add a link to a new blog page which will be dedicated to Stitching Elf.
I am sorry to say that I am still having difficulty with my website on the Friendship Tapestry. I just can´t get into it and will probably have to make a new one but that will take time and money, so..... The website is still open though to see all the beautiful stitched pieces made in various corners of the world. :-) You find the link here: Friendship Tapestry.
All the best to you all, see yah!

Happy New Year!

This strange new year started with a heavy fog which is very symbolic for a very uncertain future. Where are we heading? What is waiting behind the next corner? I guess we will soon see.

But we find our light and follow it into the future, whatever it brings. We hope for the best and believe in doing the best we can and then everything will be alright. :-)

Happy new year and may God bless your future :-)

I look forward to be in more contact here on this blog in the new year :-)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Thank you all who visited my blog page, I promise to write more next year ;-)

I am planning to add more stitching things on the blog next year :-)
See you then!

Advent with kitties and cross stitch :-)

Our "Christmas kittens" are born. Beautiful little kitties which purr so softly and meow so LOUD haha
It´s been busy times lately. I decided to start my own little business and have been working on that day and night. I am designing cross stitch patterns and have to admit it takes a bit longer then I thought to make a pattern ready for sale ;-) I am hoping the first ones will be ready in January. I will post the pictures here when ready. I call my business "Stitching Elf" All the pictures will be based on Icelandic Nature and all it inhabits.

More later and remember to enjoy the Advent :-)